I am an urban warrior ;-)

"wafflycat" <waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk> wrote in
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Apparently I am an "urban warrior"

See CTC web site article "What makes women cycle?" Link at
www.ctc.org.uk

"More and more people promoting cycling are catching on to this and
marketing specifically to women via positive images of women of all
ages and backgrounds cycling in 'everyday' clothing doing 'everyday'
things - you don't have to don the Lycra and be an urban warrior just
to go to the shops."

Is there actual marketing of bicycles to people in England? I have yet
to see a TV commercial for a bicycle of any kind anywhere. Can you send
us some of those marketers? I would really like to have someone sell me
some office - type clothes and briefcases and stuff that really works
well on a bike. I used to buy Quicksilver clothes, but now they're just
a label and don't make the technical clothes anymore.

--ag

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Is there actual marketing of bicycles to people in England? I have yet
to see a TV commercial for a bicycle of any kind anywhere. Can you send
us some of those marketers? I would really like to have someone sell me
some office - type clothes and briefcases and stuff that really works
well on a bike. I used to buy Quicksilver clothes, but now they're just
a label and don't make the technical clothes anymore.

--ag

No, we do not have adverts for bikes on television :-(

Cheers, helen s

"andy gee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Is there actual marketing of bicycles to people in England? I have yet
to see a TV commercial for a bicycle of any kind anywhere.

So you didn't watch three weeks of commercials interrupted by a bike race on
OLN last July? <g>

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Can you send
us some of those marketers? I would really like to have someone sell me
some office - type clothes and briefcases and stuff that really works
well on a bike. I used to buy Quicksilver clothes, but now they're just
a label and don't make the technical clothes anymore.

For briefcases, try Arkel. Clip right to your rack like a pannier.

For clothes, I don't get the problem. Wear your bike shorts and a white
polyester t-shirt as underwear. Take off the office clothes to ride. Put 'em
in the briefcase. Isn't it better not to sweat in your work clothes?

RichC

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wafflycat' waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk said:

Apparently I am an "urban warrior"

See CTC web site article "What makes women cycle?" Link at www.ctc.org.uk

I'd just like to know what makes women tick ;-)

But it's been my experience that women cyclists are lovely,
with wonderfully cheery sociableness. They're often the
ones who initiate small-talk conversations with me during
along-the-road encounters, and at bike parking racks.

Anyhow, maybe it's more like "urban privateer" than
"urban warrior"? After all, privateers get to choose
the times, places and gung-ho-ness of their ... erm ...
exploits, while warriors come in order-following hordes.

cheers,
Tom

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Rich Clark said:

For clothes, I don't get the problem. Wear your bike shorts and a
white polyester t-shirt as underwear. Take off the office clothes to
ride. Put 'em in the briefcase. Isn't it better not to sweat in your
work clothes?

Not every office had commodious (or clean) enough restrooms for a
change. On short jaunts it's easier just to wear slacks and a
shirt--open the shirt if it gets warm, and make sure to wear some
bicycle clips on the slacks to keep the legs from flapping about.

--
Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl>
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing
is worth war is much worse. The man who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal
safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless
made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill

Robert Uhl said:

On short jaunts it's easier just to wear slacks and a
shirt--open the shirt if it gets warm, and make sure to wear some
bicycle clips on the slacks to keep the legs from flapping about.

Or use safety pins to contain the cuffs. After trying both, I prefer
the pins. And not just because they're lighter! ;-)

- Frank Krygowski

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"andy gee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Is there actual marketing of bicycles to people in England? I have
yet to see a TV commercial for a bicycle of any kind anywhere.

So you didn't watch three weeks of commercials interrupted by a bike
race on OLN last July? <g>

Nope, not at all. I have a very complicated set of emotions about
racing bicycles; right now I'm not lending my little tiny piece of
support by watching races on TV, so I didn't see the commercials 😉

You would think that a $3,500 Maddone (one d or 2, I forget) would have
some TV demographic on at least one show that I watch, especially if you
consider the bike prices and rider demographics on the US 9W corridor
every weekend. Does it mean that cyclists are smarter than, say, other
vehicle purchasers and cannot be fooled by commercials?

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Can you send
us some of those marketers? I would really like to have someone sell
me some office - type clothes and briefcases and stuff that really
works well on a bike. I used to buy Quicksilver clothes, but now
they're just a label and don't make the technical clothes anymore.

For briefcases, try Arkel. Clip right to your rack like a pannier.

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

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For clothes, I don't get the problem. Wear your bike shorts and a
white polyester t-shirt as underwear. Take off the office clothes to
ride. Put 'em in the briefcase. Isn't it better not to sweat in your
work clothes?

Situation assessed and answered by the next poster. But Quicksilver
used to make clothes that would pass as casual office attire but also
had thermal control and would resist grease, splatter, runs and tears,
etc.

--ag

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RichC